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COP29 disappoints, EUDR saved, FLEGT in danger and a victory in Cameroon
12/12/2024
We can all stop holding our breaths: tripartite negotiations among the EU Commission, Parliament and Council concluded, 3 December 2024, with an agreement both to delay application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and not...
At a time when partnerships are more critical than ever for implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation, the EU Commission is poised to kill off its bravest initiative in forest governance and accountability, and to replace...
Tristement, une société qui agit sans gêne quant à l’absence d’autorisations n’a rien de remarquable. Ce qui l’est davantage, c’est quand le fait d’apprendre qu’elle ne pourra pas vendre le produit de ces activités sur le marché...
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The recent conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, raised high hopes for transformative action to address the escalating climate crisis. Its outcomes largely fell short,...
Indonesia’s abundant nickel reserves are crucial for a low carbon world. But extracting them is ruining local peoples’ lives and causing rampant deforestation
09/12/2024
Ghana is on the brink of a major advance in the fight against illegal logging, say Albert Katako and Obed Owusu-Addai. So why is the EU turning away from its flagship policy to tackle it?
Ghana will soon become the first African...
15/11/2024
Not so long ago, a commentator called the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) “a green jewel in European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s crown that has garnered praise and inspired imitations beyond the EU”. But in the...
13/11/2024
The battle to save the EUDR and biodiversity in Eastern Europe
Two decades ago, when the EU started incentivising burning wood as a form of renewable energy and counting CO2 emissions from wood combustion as ‘zero’ in the energy sector, it was possibly unaware that this would considerably...